Ten eminent scholars from India and Pakistan participated and presented their papers on "Marx and Post Marxim" at Jinnah Medical and Dental College on October 27th, 2018. “We must keep the process of scholarly thinking going in order to understand the system, because systems come and go but scholarship moves on”. This was said by renowned historian Dr. Mubarak Ali while formally opening a conference organized by the Tareekh Foundation Trust at the Jinnah Medical and Dental College to mark philosopher, economist and political theorist Karl Marx’s 200th birth anniversary. Prof. Dr. Jaffer Ahmed, read out a paper on how Marx looked at literature. He said the philosopher had a distinct place in history when it came to ideas and thoughts.